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Cavalry · Beat 40 · permalink

Forest

11:05–11:35 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 11:2011:20

Play from 11:05 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 29 · shots 72–72. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
forest (forest, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • older man, dark skin, wearing a dark collared shirt, visible in profile visible, audible
  • man wearing a light-colored military-style uniform with buttons and a blindfold, seated visible, audible
Also said
“How come he's wearing that Yankee uniform then?” 11:23 · “I ain't.” 11:31
Seen
military-style uniform, blindfold, tree trunk
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and questioning; themes: gratitude, identity, military allegiance; style notes: medium two-shot, natural lighting, high contrast black-and-white, static framing

Two men converse outdoors; one thanks the other for saving his life, while the other questions why he wears a Yankee uniform. The setting appears to be a wooded area during daylight.

“That young man saved my life, Moe's.” 11:08 · “If it weren't for him, I'd have drowned.” 11:13 automatic transcript, may be wrong

The record

No renewal found An automated finding, not a verdict. A renewal would have appeared in the Copyright Office's renewal registrations 27 to 29 years after the term began. Those volumes are loaded and our parse of them found no matching renewal. If that is right, a work published 1931–1963 that was not renewed entered the public domain at the end of its 28th year; the volumes are OCR of old print, and the method page reports how often the parse has been found to miss one. Evidence dossier. The finding concerns the US copyright record for the film; it is not clearance for any use, and this page's annotation is machine output.

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Frame from Cavalry (1936) at 11:20 (passage 11:05–11:35); US record: No renewal found

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